Introduction / Robert W. Hahn -- Tales of bundling : implications for the application of antitrust law to bundled discounts / Bruce H. Kobayashi -- Why tie an essential good? / Dennis W. Carlton and Michael Waldman -- Tying : the poster child for antitrust modernization / David S. Evans

Antitrust law is intended to protect consumer welfare and foster competition. At first glance, however, it is often unclear whether certain business practices have positive or detrimental effects. Businesses frequently engage in activities that may appear anticompetitive on the surface, but are...

After nearly twenty years of a 'less is more' approach to antitrust, the U.S. Department of Justice under the Clinton administration took action against Microsoft, Visa and Mastercard, and American Airlines. Were the antitrust activities of the later Clinton years an aberration, or do they...

All with a stake or interest in the case against Microsoft, brought by the Justice Department and several state Attorneys General, should recognize the importance of the potential costs of this action, some of them not at all obvious. Regardless of the legal niceties or even some of the...

By serving as a key revenue source for online content providers, online advertising has been instrumental in the development of innovative websites. Continued innovation among content providers, however, depends critically on the competitive provision of online advertising. Suppliers of online...

After two years of litigation, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the 19 states suing Microsoft have proposed draconian remedies (Plaintiffs Proposed Final Judgment 2000, hereafter, PPFJ) to address the violations of the Sherman Act found by Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson (Conclusions of Law...

Several scholars have suggested that states should play a much more limited role in antitrust enforcement, especially in matters that are national or global in scope. In this paper, we analyze the states' part in the Microsoft case - a case that illustrates the costs of state intervention in...

Antitrust law is intended to protect consumer welfare and foster competition. At first glance, however, it is often unclear whether certain business practices have positive or detrimental effects. Some activities that appear anticompetitive can actually prove beneficial to consumers. In...